Coleman powered to the front early in the race and maintained his form to hold off a charging Thompson by just two hundredths of a second, as USA’s 2022 world champion Fred Kerley finished third.
“It hurt a little bit but I knew what I was capable of doing and I knew what I was ready to do,” said 2019 world 100m champion Coleman, as he reflected on his performance at last month’s World Championships.
“Then my mind transitioned into the next opportunity for success. I knew coming here it would be a world-class field and an opportunity for me to bounce back.”
Kenya’s Emmanuel Wanyonyi was another standout performer in the men’s 800m, beating Canada’s reigning world champion Marco Arop by four hundredths of a second to win in a world-leading time of 1:43.20. Britain’s Daniel Rowdon and Ben Pattison finished fifth and ninth, respectively.
Jamaican Olympic champion Hansle Parchment won the men’s 110m hurdles in 12.96 secs, with American Daniel Roberts finishing strongly to claim second ahead of world champion Grant Holloway, who fell to only his second defeat of 2023.
Elsewhere, Kenya’s Beatrice Chebet won the women’s 3,000m in 8:24.05, the world’s best time this year, while Britain’s Victoria Ohuruogu was fifth in the women’s 400m, which was won by the Dominican Republic’s Marileidy Paulino.
The Diamond League series moves on to Brussels on 8 September and concludes in the United States with the finals in Eugene, Oregon, on 16-17 September.